The right to safety for Fryas people

Here are the rights (requirements) of all Frya’s so as to be secure.¹

1 Whenever a law is made or a new rule set down, so must it be decided to the common need but never to the profit of particular persons, nor of particular clans, nor of particular states, nor of anything else which is particular.

2 Whenever war comes and there are houses destroyed or ships, however that it be, be it by the foe or by common judgement, so aught the common community, that is all the folk together, to fix it back again;
therefore that no one may forsake the common cause to keep his own property.⁵
(Everyone must contribute to the repair of war damages.)

3 If war is gone and there are some so fordone that they may no longer work, so must the community support them, by festivals aught they to sit prominently so that the youth shall honor them.

4 If there are widows and orphans come, so must one also support them and the sons may write the names of their dads upon their shields to honour their families.

5 If there are some caught by the enemy and come they back, so must one lead them away from the camp, whereupon they may be let free of bad promises and then they may their oaths not keep and yet remain honourable.

6 If we ourselves take enemy (prisoners), so bring them deep into the land away, one teaches them our Frisian morals.¹⁰

7 Let them afterwards go, so let it be done with kindness through the maidens until we win friends and allies for enemies and foes.